I know at least one thing. I feel much better about the "defence" of my own computer from viruses and hackers with a stripped down linux that runs few services. I know exactly what programs/services are running. The stripped kernel code is small enough that I probably could audit it over say a year. The "Defense" Department could certainly allocate some resources to audit a stripped distribution.
Change the IE "Internet" zone security settings so that ActiveX and Java and everything else is disabled. Then add to the "Trusted sites" the few sites that you go to that require it. When you find a site that isnt functioning (or you get that damn ActiveX warning) and you think its a commercial reputable site, add it to trusted. This will stop 90% of all of these kinds of bugs WITHOUT a patch.
So more evidence they are a monopoly using their profits to clobber new areas ? After what happened with the settlement I have lost any significant hope of legal fix for this. Yeah maybe the EU will get them but somehow I feel microsoft will squirm around it. My only hope of not destroying them but just making them struggle like any other competitive firm, is for linux to start making real headway on the desktop like it seems to be doing in some countries / regions.
That is the real gain of solid state drives. If you have say a database with lots of small writes then your speed is limited by seek time of drives of around 5ms. You can add more spindles to help in some situations. With SCSI solid state drives they max out at 8000 trans per second (usually) because of the scsi controller.
Nothing about the source in the article. Nothing on the front page either. Maybe in the detail of the front page item (link) but its slashdotted. Somehow I doubt they mention the source. Only "open standards and technologies"
What I expected was some sort of bull that there is competition from cable companies. When regulators allowed cable co's to raise their rates everywhere they argued that they have satellite competition. They have SOME competition from satellite and vicea versa. There are many building codes that prevent people from getting even small satellite dishes not to mention obstructed views
"The video quality is fairly impressive, though the resolution is only 640x480"
My guess is first that it dosent begin to compare to even an analog Hi8 camera in quality. But who ever wrote this is a video novice (both computer and camcorder). 640x480 30fps video rarely works for webcams. Somebody please show me a higher resolution camcorder / webcam (30fps) that isnt like $50k !
It has been shown that quantum computers do not have the same effect on symmetric encryption that they do on public key encryption. They only cut the number of symmetric bits in half. Public key encryption however is changed to a polynomial problem.
Advice. One of these should be made COMPLETE and STABLE with fairly comon video hardware and be turned into a BOOTABLE image that will autodetect hardware and write on to a partition of the users choice. Makeit so non techies can use it EASILY. And to stop wasting effort. Some of these implementations should combine efforts.
True but I think thats coming. Were people burning CDs like this 4 years ago when the recorders cost like DVD-R drives do now ? Have you seen all those advertisements on places like yahoo for "copying a DVD to CD" ? Thats for joe user. As DVD-R/... drive prices go down, the software will become simple and available.
Per Gig DVD-R and DVD-RW and CD-R are the same price. Yes they are not 15 cents a piece, they are a buck. But -RW is linearly rewriteable for the same price - so you also never make a coaster.
Drives are min $300 for a -R/-Ram. But many people have CD-Rs. DVD-R and CD-R media both cost $.2 per gig now. The startup cost is so much it seems better to buy a few IDE drives and wait till the price comes down. The only good thing is the (linear) rewriteable -RW which are as cheap as -R which is great.
And why not include -RAM? Its media is cheaper than +RW (the most similar), and it is so established.
You can now get blank DVDs for $1.5 a piece or less. They better not do what Canada does with tarrifs now currently FAR higher than manufacturing costs for CDs. There are plenty of legit things people can do with that storage.
The latency of 10ms on ide and 5ms on scsi (typical) are by far the slowest things you have to deal with on a computer today (other than CD latencies). It hasent changed much in 5 or 10 years. You will notice a substantial speedup in a number of applications and windows functions.
I find that much code I want to write requires database-like functions like join. I dont mean that it requires any of this necessairly written to disk. STL has all sorts of ways of indexing to speed up searches and inserts and do it cleanly. But then it misses the next key step which is join.
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ECC is useless if you are running something like windows 98 which crashes on its own so much anyway - and would bsod on an ECC error. ECC cant work with Celeron only PII, PIII, PIV which also have their own ECC caches. Something like WINNT/2000/XP it is worth it because they have long uptimes. To the poster who bsod with ECC off- turn it on like the other poster said. ECC in the old PC133 PC100 etc style memory changed the minimum number of wait states you can have (CAS3 instead of CAS2).
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And with that NSA secured linux distribution, maybe they already did.
I know at least one thing. I feel much better about the "defence" of my own computer from viruses and hackers with a stripped down linux that runs few services. I know exactly what programs/services are running. The stripped kernel code is small enough that I probably could audit it over say a year. The "Defense" Department could certainly allocate some resources to audit a stripped distribution.
Change the IE "Internet" zone security settings so that ActiveX and Java and everything else is disabled. Then add to the "Trusted sites" the few sites that you go to that require it. When you find a site that isnt functioning (or you get that damn ActiveX warning) and you think its a commercial reputable site, add it to trusted. This will stop 90% of all of these kinds of bugs WITHOUT a patch.
So more evidence they are a monopoly using their profits to clobber new areas ? After what happened with the settlement I have lost any significant hope of legal fix for this. Yeah maybe the EU will get them but somehow I feel microsoft will squirm around it. My only hope of not destroying them but just making them struggle like any other competitive firm, is for linux to start making real headway on the desktop like it seems to be doing in some countries / regions.
Dosent microsoft already open source to some Corporations ? I believe it is not the complete compilable source though.
That is the real gain of solid state drives. If you have say a database with lots of small writes then your speed is limited by seek time of drives of around 5ms. You can add more spindles to help in some situations. With SCSI solid state drives they max out at 8000 trans per second (usually) because of the scsi controller.
Nothing about the source in the article. Nothing on the front page either. Maybe in the detail of the front page item (link) but its slashdotted. Somehow I doubt they mention the source. Only "open standards and technologies"
Zip format is controled by one manufacture - result : Cost per meg -100- -times- Higer than CD (And yet some morons still buy it)
DVD - many manufacturers. Disk prices now BELOW CD's per megabyte for some formats.
What I expected was some sort of bull that there is competition from cable companies. When regulators allowed cable co's to raise their rates everywhere they argued that they have satellite competition. They have SOME competition from satellite and vicea versa. There are many building codes that prevent people from getting even small satellite dishes not to mention obstructed views
My guess is that tivo says that tech is patent pending or something. Another reason to get annoyed with patents.
I use my A40 as a fax scanner to send faxes from home. A40 is awesome I totally agree.
"The video quality is fairly impressive, though the resolution is only 640x480"
My guess is first that it dosent begin to compare to even an analog Hi8 camera in quality. But who ever wrote this is a video novice (both computer and camcorder). 640x480 30fps video rarely works for webcams. Somebody please show me a higher resolution camcorder / webcam (30fps) that isnt like $50k !
It has been shown that quantum computers do not have the same effect on symmetric encryption that they do on public key encryption. They only cut the number of symmetric bits in half. Public key encryption however is changed to a polynomial problem.
Advice. One of these should be made COMPLETE and STABLE with fairly comon video hardware and be turned into a BOOTABLE image that will autodetect hardware and write on to a partition of the users choice. Makeit so non techies can use it EASILY. And to stop wasting effort. Some of these implementations should combine efforts.
True but I think thats coming. Were people burning CDs like this 4 years ago when the recorders cost like DVD-R drives do now ? Have you seen all those advertisements on places like yahoo for "copying a DVD to CD" ? Thats for joe user. As DVD-R/... drive prices go down, the software will become simple and available.
Per Gig DVD-R and DVD-RW and CD-R are the same price. Yes they are not 15 cents a piece, they are a buck. But -RW is linearly rewriteable for the same price - so you also never make a coaster.
Gee thanks for repeating whats in the article reference. I know but there are -R / -Ram drives out there anyway right !
Drives are min $300 for a -R/-Ram.
But many people have CD-Rs.
DVD-R and CD-R media both cost $.2 per gig now.
The startup cost is so much it seems better
to buy a few IDE drives and wait till the price
comes down. The only good thing is the (linear)
rewriteable -RW which are as cheap as -R which is
great.
And why not include -RAM? Its media is cheaper
than +RW (the most similar), and it is so established.
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http://www.hunton.com/pdfs/article
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http://www.hunton.com/pdfs/article/Risk_Rewar
http://www.hunton.com/pdfs/article/Risk_Rewar
http://www.hunton.com/pdfs/article/Risk_Rewar
My guess is he got no money. I wonder what kind of job he can get now.
Well I hope its not like that. The TAX is FAR greater than the manufacturing cost
You can now get blank DVDs for $1.5 a piece or less. They better not do what Canada does with tarrifs now currently FAR higher than manufacturing costs for CDs. There are plenty of legit things people can do with that storage.
The latency of 10ms on ide and 5ms on scsi (typical) are by far the slowest things you have to deal with on a computer today (other than CD latencies). It hasent changed much in 5 or 10 years. You will notice a substantial speedup in a number of applications and windows functions.
I find that much code I want to write requires database-like functions like join. I dont mean that it requires any of this necessairly written to disk. STL has all sorts of ways of indexing to speed up searches and inserts and do it cleanly. But then it misses the next key step which is join.
ECC is useless if you are running something like windows 98 which crashes on its own so much anyway - and would bsod on an ECC error. ECC cant work with Celeron only PII, PIII, PIV which also have their own ECC caches. Something like WINNT/2000/XP it is worth it because they have long uptimes. To the poster who bsod with ECC off- turn it on like the other poster said.
ECC in the old PC133 PC100 etc style memory changed the minimum number of wait states you can have (CAS3 instead of CAS2).